A Statesman is a politician that has been dead around five years. Long enough for the sins they committed to die down in the public eye. I propose that ALL Congress members do the right thing and begin the path to Statesman, or Stateswoman, IMMEDIATELY! Do it for the Country, do it for Posterity!!!! Do it for the children!!!

And the worm turns again. The Demorats want to bring 'earmarks' back to fund expen$$$ive boondoggles. Sounds like blackmail to me.

They need to shut it all down. This kick the can down the road is bullcrap. All this bullcrap over ILLEGAL ALIENS is driving me nuts.

Me too.

-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

Carry a 25 if it makes you
feel good, but do not ever load it. If you load it, you may shoot it. If
you shoot it, you may hit somebody, and if you hit somebody – and he
finds out about it – he may be very angry with you. --Jeff Cooper

Carry a 25 if it makes you
feel good, but do not ever load it. If you load it, you may shoot it. If
you shoot it, you may hit somebody, and if you hit somebody – and he
finds out about it – he may be very angry with you. --Jeff Cooper

That would only matter if their real pay came from thier paychecks. You think any of them become millionaires collecting a paycheck? Sure $175k is nice but DC is expensive and they all have to maintain two households. No thier real pay comes from their real employers, their big donors and lobbyists. Citizens and voters don't matter except for a few months during election years.

They also have access to insider information from government enterprises. The kind of information that can turn a few hundred thousand dollars into a few million.

Political correctness is a liberal degrading of the freedom of speech. George Orwell's 1984 famously incorporated the notion of limiting thought through language (see Newspeak)." Meanwhile, the beatings will continue until morale improves around here.

In my world it could be shut down for a year & I wouldn't notice it at all.
Calling it a budget is a joke.... It is just how much more can we screw people out of & give it away to people that didn't work for it & see how much richer they can get doing this.

Back during the Revolutionary War, troops got up a pretty convincing mutiny over not being paid for a while. Might be time for them to do that again. If they did, I bet they'd have more help than they could stir with a stick!

This has turned into a "FAKE SHUTDOWN" Museums in DC are open, Statue of Liberty is open, at my wife's office inspectors and agents are working, of course the Military is working. This wont hurt the average American at all, politicians are scared to death of making people uncomfortable. Bet those EBT cards will have their money in the account too.

Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5

This has turned into a "FAKE SHUTDOWN" Museums in DC are open, Statue of Liberty is open, at my wife's office inspectors and agents are working, of course the Military is working. This wont hurt the average American at all, politicians are scared to death of making people uncomfortable. Bet those EBT cards will have their money in the account too.

Well until all those people don't get their paychecks on Friday

"Finding out that you have run out of toilet paper is a good example of lack of preparation, buying 10 years worth is silly"
-DoctorWho

This has turned into a "FAKE SHUTDOWN" Museums in DC are open, Statue of Liberty is open, at my wife's office inspectors and agents are working, of course the Military is working. This wont hurt the average American at all, politicians are scared to death of making people uncomfortable. Bet those EBT cards will have their money in the account too.

It is getting less fake----commissary will shut down as of Thurs and no shipments will come in as of now.

Active military, Reserve and National Guard members will be paid on time for pay entitlements earned Jan. 19 or earlier. Military members cannot be paid for duty performed after the expiration of the Continuing Resolution Authority on Jan. 19. Once a CRA or another appropriations act is signed into law, normal disbursement of military pay will resume. Taken from DFAS Facebook page.

It is getting less fake----commissary will shut down as of Thurs and no shipments will come in as of now.

Active military, Reserve and National Guard members will be paid on time for pay entitlements earned Jan. 19 or earlier. Military members cannot be paid for duty performed after the expiration of the Continuing Resolution Authority on Jan. 19. Once a CRA or another appropriations act is signed into law, normal disbursement of military pay will resume. Taken from DFAS Facebook page.

If the salaries for the idiots congressmen (approximately $260K per day) were cut and rerouted to military support accounts like the commissary it would at least help ... and light a fire under those playing games that hurt others and no skin off their own butt.

“The further a society drifts from truth ... the more it will hate those who speak it."
- George Orwell

I STILL hope the Democraps and their RINO minions die in a fire. A rogue rouge meteor hitting the Capitol Building sure would be good about now. One about the size of one of those bid Euclid dump trucks would do the trick nicely!

This is what needs to happen but on a much larger scale. Shut it down everything but essential functions. Unless it hurts and gets peoples attention nothing will be done constructively there pay checks are there they just cant have them until this mess is fixed. Need to do this like they did in 2013 that got folks attention.

Nope, not a damn thing. Nothing at all done about illegals, and it won't be.

-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

Carry a 25 if it makes you
feel good, but do not ever load it. If you load it, you may shoot it. If
you shoot it, you may hit somebody, and if you hit somebody – and he
finds out about it – he may be very angry with you. --Jeff Cooper